[Geeks] Sun Kit is just BETTER

[Peter L. Wargo]

On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, James Lockwood wrote:

> Replying just to Geeks.

> > VOTE HERE FOR YOUR WORST SUN KIT.....
> 
> Sun 3/50.  4MB soldered to the board, expanding expensive.  Cycle-stealing
> framebuffer.  The 3/60 walked all over it.

Yep.  

> Sun 4/x30.  Worst wheels ever put on a computer.

Yep.

> Sun 4/4x0.  Damn hard to get reasonable SCSI performance.  Funky.

Yep.

> SparcStation SLC (and to a lesser extent the ELC).  Cool idea but not cool
> running, heat death was a way of life.  16MB RAM limit of SLC was painful
> given that even the SS1 could handle 64.

Double Yep.

> SparcStation 4.  Ok, it was cheap.  The "workstation" power supply was
> absolute garbage though and didn't retain power state.

Aggh!  I hate these still!

> Ultra 150.  Bill knows why.

Hmmm... 

> Ultra 5/10.  Built to a cost and it shows.  I can't fault them for using
> cheap parts as they WERE cheap, but I wish that Mitac had done better work
> with the case.

I hated the Case, the IDE, and the onboard framebuffer.

I'm surprised at the ones that were missed:

2/50 (Pizza-box VME Sun-2.  'Nuff said.)

386i (What a total waste!)

3/80 (Why was it even released?)

-Pete